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Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-party, Ransomware and AI Attacks Will Get Worse

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware has already been combined with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks , and Manky notes that ransomware could see the addition of wiper malware, “which could not only wreck data but destroy systems and hardware. ” Also read: Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft. .

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How to prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household. The CCPA applies to for-profit entities that both collect and process the PI Information of California residents and do business in the State of California, without a physical presence in California being a requirement.

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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

. “For more than a year, most corporate offices have stood mostly abandoned as employees continued to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Deepen Desai, chief information security officer (CISO) at Zscaler, said in a statement. ” Most Devices Communicate in Plaintext. How the devices communicated was also a problem.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

.” “It would be possible, on detailed examination of video, to compromise elements of operational security,” agreed Mike Hamilton, co-founder and chief information security officer of CI Security and former Seattle CISO. Individual workers’ patterns and habits could be studied as well, to their detriment.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

With ransomware, attackers encrypt an organization's data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. Once attackers receive payment, they are supposed to share a decryption key, enabling victims to recover their data. And when you think of an API at attack, where that data is just exfiltrated. Ransomware is not new.

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The first anniversary of the GDPR: How a risk-based approach can help you achieve GDPR compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The GDPR applies to businesses that collect and use personal information from citizens of the EU, regardless of where the business itself is located. The GDPR mandates that a business must inform EU DPAs very quickly (within 72 hours) and thoroughly of any security data breach involving European citizens.

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Top 18 Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Morgan Asset Management, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Formation 8, BlackRock Funds, Accel Partners, and Data Collective, as well as individual investors such as Microsoft Chairman John W. It has raised $332.5 million in funding from an impressive roster of investors: J.P. SECURITI.ai. SECURITI.ai Ubiq Security.